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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.558 [SLACK_000772] · slack_pm:msg:05819

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Date
2021-03-01 14:37
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Kristian G. Andersen

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Haha - "whether flight evolved twice in mammals"

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  1. 2021-03-01 14:33 Kristian G. Andersen open
    So, so, so sorry for her.
  2. 2021-03-01 14:35 Andrew Rambaut open
    I am so livid. But I can't say anything as Emma is a former student. Someone needs to call this out. I can't believe the limited set of citations too - Franky Bollocks'' paper? FFS.
  3. 2021-03-01 14:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah - this really should be called out. Some of the worst I have read. What the heck went wrong here? Or are these people just so full of themselves by now that this seems ok?
  4. 2021-03-01 14:36 Andrew Rambaut open
    ```The 'phylogenetic' tools used to track these variants were largely developed by evolutionary biologists to study the lineage of organisms. They were designed to construct phylogenetic trees that can ask, for example, whether flightevolved twice in mammals, or whether two large groups of bats began as one that then diverged.Now, co-opted to track a pandemic, the leaves of the phylogenetic tree represent SARS-CoV-2 sequences taken from individuals, and the tree grows with the number of cases ```Now co-opted?
  5. 2021-03-01 14:37 Kristian G. Andersen
    Haha - "whether flight evolved twice in mammals"
  6. 2021-03-01 14:37 Edward C. Holmes open
    Here are some of my emails: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-02 at 9.36.14 am.png]
  7. 2021-03-01 14:37 Kristian G. Andersen open
    The best example they could come up with.
  8. 2021-03-01 14:38 Edward C. Holmes open
    And another. This is like a freedom of information act request: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-02 at 9.38.02am.png]
  9. 2021-03-01 14:39 Edward C. Holmes open
    The whole thing is complete and embarrassing shit.

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